Kegan Paul - a Victorian imprint : publishers, books, and cultural history / Leslie Howsam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howsam, Leslie, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co--History--19th century.

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.

Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages, 12 pages of plates) : illustrations, tables, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Toronto, [Ontario] : Kegan Paul International : University of Toronto Press, 1998.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Kegan Paul imprint was created and its reputation for a distinguished list of titles established during a forty-year period from 1871 to 1911. Several publishers, and their firms, were involved in the development of the imprint during this period, beginning with Henry S. King and Company, and following in 1877 with Charles Kegan Paul and his partner Alfred Chenevix Trench. A financial crisis in 1889 forced an amalgamation with two other businesses and the new firm changed managers periodically until George Routledge and Son took over the business in 1911.Leslie Howsam combines biography and analytic bibliography in her study of the Kegan Paul imprint to demonstrate the value of publishing history as a contribution to the scholarly study of the book. Basing her research on intensive work in the company's surviving archives and supplemented by extensive library work with the actual books, Howsam looks at the wide range of significant titles published for the imprint. In addition, she reconstructs a biographical and business history of the firm based on published and unpublished accounts of the individuals involved, including the publishers and their families, and looks at the effects of changing business practices. The focus of Victorian Imprint Kegan Paul is the duality of imprint: the publisher's imprint upon a list of books, and publisher's personalities, the imprint of their taste and judgment on the culture in which they lived.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Tables

Plate section

Introduction

Chapter 1. Henry S. King: businessman of letters

Chapter 2. Charles Kegan Paul, pastor to publisher

Chapter 3. Kegan Paul, Trench – the partnership with a reputation for serious and beautiful books, 1877–1888

Chapter 4. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd.: a financial crisis and a revolution in management, 1889-1911

Chapter 5. The Kegan Paul legacy: the making, consolidation and survival of a reputation for serious books

Notes

Chronology of Events

Who’s Who

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4426-5562-3

1-4426-2307-1

OCLC:

944178959